Good day! I hope that all is well! It's still cold, but spring isn't too far away at all, I hope. I hope that all are healthy and enjoying school and work and life in general.
We met with the mission president this week for interviews, and it was a great experience. It helped me and gave me more ideas how we can be serving better. He mentioned our missions as a sprint in the middle of a marathon, and we need to come home sweaty but ready to keep running. If we give it our all, we'll be somewhere different as a result of our sprint, even if it seems like we still have a long way to go.
We had a crazy, crazy weekend. We had a meeting in Seoul today, so we're a bit short on time (also, I remember how much fun Seoul is every time we go), but among the events of the weekend we experienced:
- A screaming, swearing, love stricken English class crasher that caused quite a scene
- A guy who asked me to confirm about the Mormon uprising against the government in America seven years ago as a result of farming something or other. When I responded that I didn't think that such a story had much merit and there were a lot of rumors about our church in Korea, he responded smugly that he must just know more than me.
-Meeting 2NE1's personal bodyguard during a street contact
-A lady walking between me and a high school student I was talking to on the street and whispering in his ear "heresy, heresy"
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| Maybe this is what Sam and his companion rode to English class. Beats their usual walking! (photo from the internets) |
-Listening to Vivaldi's Spring on a wall size, $100,000 sound system from England and eating wasabi sushi and fish spam with a canker sore before driving to said English class in a very sweet BMW with the husk of a burned rice for dessert
-Some very interesting and intoxicated fellow passengers on the bus home
-Additional sitings of the English class crasher at the subway station
-Sick investigators who couldn't come to church
-One missionary whose district I served in earlier getting sick and having to go home early
-Translating for a Mongolian named Zolo who came to church
-A sudden Gospel principles lesson during church. It turns out the story of Esther is pretty hard to explain in Korean
-Leaving my scriptures on the bus on the way to church. All of them, English and Korean. I got them back the same day, after church, by a miracle.
I felt that I should pray for trials to overcome in order to better my character, and boy, we had a crazy couple of days. I feel like I'm a better person now, I hope? Never a boring day, at any rate.^^
Some thoughts from this week, below.
In our personal interview with Christ, what will we say that we have done with His name and His calling as a missionary? Do we give our hearts to the people we speak to? Do we open up and share what is precious to us? Are we always respecting His name with our actions?
Catch Korea on fire. It takes a lot, so we need to be unquenchable. When we build a fire we start with sharing warmth and light and build from the basics at the bottom. We will continue to testify and to serve until we have given everything we can. We feel a great fire, a great weight and responsibility pulling us to give our all.
I have been trying to be more doctrinally based in proselyting, share better what blessings the Gospel has led me to have in my life.
All of my love and appreciation for you. Have a wonderful week!
Elder South
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